Innovative Programs Help Blunt Problems Caused By Primary Care Shortage
Some physician offices offer innovative options to counter primary care shortages. In addition, nursing shortages loom.
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Some physician offices offer innovative options to counter primary care shortages. In addition, nursing shortages loom.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including coverage of emerging state health reform implementation issues.
President will invite insurance commissioners to the White House next month. His speech to the group Tuesday was canceled because of a scheduling conflict.
"In much of the rest of the world, doctors are government employees. And even consulting arrangements that would be considered routine in the United States might violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, particularly if the payments are outsize or the arrangements are not disclosed to the governments," The New York Times reports.
Chinese and African officials concluded the China-Africa Agricultural Forum in Beijing on Thursday, which explored possibilities for agricultural cooperation and addressed food security issues, Xinhua reports.
"The State Department said Thursday that the U.S. financial commitment to Pakistan flood relief has reached $76 million," VOA News reports (Gollust, 8/12).
Current tools for combating malaria, such as artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT) and increasing coverage of insecticide-treated bednets (ITN) "could dramatically reduce the burden of malignant malaria on parts of Africa if a comprehensive, sustained intervention programme were in place," according to a study published this week in PLoS Medicine, CORDIS News reports.
"According to the study, half of the world's population is at risk of malaria infection, and every year it claims the lives of nearly 1 million people in sub-Saharan Africa," the news service adds. "Plasmodium falciparum, one of the species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans, is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes that normally bite (and inject the deadly parasites) at night," CORDIS News reports (8/11).
News outlets covered various conflicts about how to interpret the new health law, especially focusing on how to define what insurers can claim are legitimate medical expenses, as opposed to administrative costs.
A group of Arizona lawmakers has become the latest to challenge the federal health law as they "joined a conservative watchdog group Thursday in filing a 78-page lawsuit," Fox News reports.
Today's opinions range from the notion of Medicaid "rescissions" to patients' acceptance of foreign-trained doctors.
In an effort to staunch the flow of up to $60 billion a year to Medicare fraudsters, federal officials are launching a series of new safeguards that target program areas favored by the con artists.
This week's research roundup features studies and briefs from Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Archives of Internal Medicine, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Institutes of Medicine and Mathematica.
Doctors across the country including Tahsina Atiquzzaman in Kissimmee, Fla., are "shredding paper charts and ushering in digital records as part of the health care milestones announced last month by the federal government," The Orlando Sentinel/Modesto Bee reports.
Paula Oertel, a Medicare disability beneficiary whose brain tumor disappeared for nine years while she was on an expensive drug, died after having her insurance coverage -- and drug treatment -- interrupted.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
"Because of rising deductibles and cost-sharing rules, patients are increasingly faced with bills that would have been unusual for someone with insurance a few years ago," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including an exploration of a variety of health policy issues, ranging from consumer protections regarding benefit rights to the cost of electronic medical records.
News outlets consider health reform's changes on insurers - who are seeking flexibility on mandates - as well as changes to premiums, small businesses and emergency room care.
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